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Scotland: Abortions for Down syndrome surge over 80% in 3 years
Live Action News ^ | June 2, 2025 | Bridget Sielicki

Posted on 06/02/2025 10:59:22 PM PDT by Morgana

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Public Health Scotland published new abortion statistics last week, showing that abortions following a Down syndrome diagnosis or a disability diagnosis rose significantly from 2021-2024. Notably, there were 82% more abortions on children with Down syndrome in 2024 than in 2021.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

Abortions for Down syndrome rose 15% from 2023 to 2024 — and 82% since 2021.

Despite attempts to restrict abortion for a prenatal diagnosis, Scotland and the UK allow these eugenic abortions until birth.

Advocates believe that a prenatal screening tool is partially to blame for the rise in abortions.

THE DETAILS:

According to the abortion report, there were 33 abortions in Scotland following a Down syndrome diagnosis in 2021, 52 in 2023, and 60 in 2024. The jump from 33 to 60 marks an 82% increase in just three years.

Other data shows that there were 280 abortions involving a preborn baby with a disability in 2024; this is a 26% increase from 2021, when there were 222 abortions for a prenatal disability diagnosis.

Lynn Murray, spokesperson for the advocacy group Don’t Screen Us Out, decried the huge increase in abortions for Down syndrome.

“As a mother of a 25-year-old daughter who has Down’s syndrome, I see every day the unique value she brings to our family and the positive impact she has on others around her,” Murray said. “It is deeply concerning that despite the leaps advocacy groups have made in raising awareness in support of people with Down’s syndrome, abortion in the case of Down’s syndrome is still so commonplace and widespread in the UK.”

GO DEEPER:

Although Scotland has a 24-week limit on abortion, abortion is allowed up to birth when the preborn child has been given a diagnosis of a disability or Down syndrome.

Earlier this year, UK MP Sir Liam Fox introduced a bill that would have removed the exception allowing abortion up to birth for babies with Down syndrome. However, the legislation stalled before being given the opportunity to become law.

Advocates have previously warned that the rise in abortions of children with Down syndrome may partially be due to NIPT (Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing), a screening tool that allows parents to determine if their preborn child has a diagnosis such as Down syndrome. A previous investigation by The Sunday Times found that the number of babies born with Down syndrome has fallen by 30% in NHS hospitals that have introduced the new form of screening.

Murray warned that when parents find out their preborn child has Down syndrome, they are often pressured to abort.

“In fact, we hear from parents all the time how abortion was repeatedly presented to them in the hospital as an obvious solution following the receipt of the news that their baby had Down’s syndrome,” she said.

THE BOTTOM LINE:

Though the rise in abortion following a Down syndrome diagnosis follows an overall trend in rising abortion rates, leaders in Scotland seem unfazed that a growing number of preborn children are dying in the womb, instead noting that they will find a way to increase abortion access.

“The Scottish government notes the continued increase in the demand for abortion services and we are working to understand this increase and to take steps to address the issues behind it,” said Jenni Minto, the women’s health minister.

Prenatal screening should not be used as a ‘seek and destroy’ weapon against preborn children, but as a tool to help parents better prepare and care for their children.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: abortion; downsyndrome; prolife; scotland
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I'm not surprised.
1 posted on 06/02/2025 10:59:22 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

They must be labeling all pregnancies as Down syndrome babies to justify abortion.


2 posted on 06/02/2025 11:03:31 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: mass55th

Not to justify it.

But in order for them to perform the abortion, if its after 24 weeks.


3 posted on 06/02/2025 11:13:58 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: mass55th; SaveFerris; No name given

I think sometimes they are.

Or the doc is worried they might be sued so they are pressuring the parents to abort in case the child is disabled.


4 posted on 06/02/2025 11:14:09 PM PDT by Morgana ( “Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.” — Alice Paul 🇺🇸 🇷🇺 )
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To: Morgana
These discussions are too ghoulish to read before bedtime.

5 posted on 06/02/2025 11:20:02 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: mass55th
In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled Scotland: Abortions for Down syndrome surge over 80% in 3 years, mass55th wrote:

They must be labeling all pregnancies as Down syndrome babies to justify abortion.

I think you're right. I was thinking the level of birth defects would have risen with vaxxed pregnant women and vaxxed infants. So call it down syndrome and then write an article portraying it as a Down syndrome epidemic.


6 posted on 06/02/2025 11:34:25 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: ransomnote
" So call it down syndrome and then write an article portraying it as a Down syndrome epidemic."

It's like when the flu disappeared and everybody was labeled as having died of Covid.

7 posted on 06/02/2025 11:39:46 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Morgana

[and 82% since 2021.]

Fauci’s COVID-19(84) and the clot shot. /shiny side out


8 posted on 06/02/2025 11:48:22 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: ransomnote

The year of 2021 really has to be something other than coincidental

9 months back from any point in that year is right in the middle of the whole thing


9 posted on 06/02/2025 11:50:04 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: mass55th
Public Health Scotland published new abortion statistics last week, showing that abortions following a Down syndrome diagnosis or a disability diagnosis rose significantly from 2021-2024. Notably, there were 82% more abortions on children with Down syndrome in 2024 than in 2021.

Abortions for babies who ALLEGEDLY had Down's Syndrome.

It's all based on a diagnosis from a less than accurate test.

10 posted on 06/03/2025 12:18:09 AM PDT by metmom ( He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.”)
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To: metmom

It’s the radical leftist mindset, kill off the useless eaters because they will be nothing but a drag on society, think of all the welfare and medical benefits they will have to spend on a person who contributes nothing


11 posted on 06/03/2025 12:54:00 AM PDT by srmanuel
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To: Morgana
Disgusting!

Advocates believe that a prenatal screening tool is partially to blame for the rise in abortions.

I wonder if, besides that, the actual incidence of Down's Syndrome is increasing (due, e.g., to the steady rise in the average age of women when giving birth - because they want to first enjoy their "hoe years" and/or establish themselves, career-wise, before marrying).

Regards,

12 posted on 06/03/2025 1:26:11 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Morgana

Neither am I, at all, sadly.


13 posted on 06/03/2025 3:15:21 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Morgana

It saddens me to read this.


14 posted on 06/03/2025 3:40:02 AM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: srmanuel

And they ignore all the welfare deadbeats who are scamming the system.


15 posted on 06/03/2025 4:46:58 AM PDT by metmom ( He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.”)
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To: alexander_busek

“steady rise in the average age of women when giving birth”

That’s what I believe as well. Biologically women’s fertility starts to decline after age 25. The average age of marriage is older than that now. The older the woman the more problems during pregnancy.
For a society, it’s a recipe for extinction.


16 posted on 06/03/2025 4:55:00 AM PDT by Varda
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To: Morgana

Perhaps focus on what is causing the “surge” in cases of Downs.


17 posted on 06/03/2025 5:14:42 AM PDT by 3RIVRS
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To: Morgana

I think it’s Ireland that touted that they have eliminated Down Syndrome in their country.

That sounded good until it came out that the reason is that they are all aborted.

Bunch of sick pukes.


18 posted on 06/03/2025 5:21:30 AM PDT by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: metmom

And they brag about having eradicated Down Syndrome in their society as if that is something to admire, when in reality they kill off the children with down syndrome instead allowing them to be born, it’s an evil belief system.

Today it’s down syndrome where they kill the infants, what’s the next thing they will use as justification for killing off the undesirable.


19 posted on 06/03/2025 6:20:47 AM PDT by srmanuel
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To: Morgana

Any ethnic breakdown of indigenous Scots versus others?


20 posted on 06/03/2025 6:23:17 AM PDT by Salman (Avoid foreign entanglements.)
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